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9781591398622

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense

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    9781591398622

  • ISBN10:

    1591398622

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-02-28
  • Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

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Summary

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die.Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn't wise at allbut, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health.This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Part One Setting the Stage
1 Why Every Company Needs Evidence-Based Management
3(26)
2 How to Practice Evidence-Based Management
29(28)
Part Two Dangerous Half-Truths About Managing People and Organizations
3 Is Work Fundamentally Different from the Rest of Life and Should It Be?
57(28)
4 Do the Best Organizations Have the Best People?
85(24)
5 Do Financial Incentives Drive Company Performance?
109(26)
6 Strategy Is Destiny?
135(24)
7 Change or Die?
159(28)
8 Are Great Leaders in Control of Their Companies?
187(30)
Part Three From Evidence to Action
9 Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
217(22)
Notes 239(22)
Acknowledgments 261(4)
Index 265(12)
About the Authors 277

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